Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings

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Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings, (born Oct. 19, 1913, Idle, West Yorkshire, Eng.—died Aug. 4, 2004, Cambridge, Eng.), British lawyer and jurist who served as Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge (1955–82) and as a judge on the International Court of Justice (1982–95, president 1991–94) at The Hague. Although Jennings was not a prolific writer, the edition of Oppenheim’s International Law (1992) that he co-wrote with Sir Arthur Watts was considered a classic in the field. Jennings was knighted in 1982.

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